Tuesday, March 31, 2015

March 30, 2015
(JoInfo)President Petro Poroshenko
has signed Decree "On the Plan of Holding Multinational Trainings with
Participation of AFU Units in the Territory of Ukraine and their Participation
in Trainings Abroad for 2015, as well as the Access to the Territory of Ukraine
for the Units of the Armed Forces of Other States to Participate in
Multinational Trainings in 2015," Joinfo.ua reports with reference to theofficial websiteof the Ukrainian leader.

"The level
of preparation of our servicemen that take part in trainings should be high,
for them to become instructors and share their experience for the struggle
against subversive-reconnaissance groups and the increase of efficiency of
various sectors of the Armed Forces," said Poroshenko.

A series of
Ukrainian-American trainings in the territory of Ukraine is scheduled for 2015:
"Fearless Guardian-2015" (overall number of participants equals 2.2
thousand people, including 1 thousand U.S. servicemen), "Sea
Breeze-2015" (overall number of participants equals 2.5 thousand people,
including 1 thousand U.S. servicemen and up to 500 militaries from NATO
countries and the program "Partnership for Peace") and "Saber
Guardian/Rapid Trident-2015" (overall number of participants equals 2.1
thousand people, including up to 500 U.S. servicemen and up to 600 servicemen
from NATO countries and the program "Partnership for Peace"). Also,
Ukrainian-Polish trainings are planned: "Secure Sky – 2015" (overall,
350 participants, including 100 Polish militaries) and "Legal Order –
2015" (overall, 100 participants, including 50 Polish servicemen). For
this end, the Decree of the President grants access to the territory of Ukraine
for the armed forces units of the U.S., NATO member-states, members of
the program "Partnership for Peace", Poland with armament, military
equipment, ships, submarines, aircrafts and helicopters for the period and in
the amount approved by the Decree.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

March 26, 2015 (GlobalResearch) Yesterday the House of Representatives passed a resolution urging President
Obama to send lethal aid to Ukraine, providing offensive, not just “defensive”
weapons to the Ukraine army – the same insolvent, hyperinflating Ukraine which,
with a Caa3/CC credit rating, last week started preparations to issue sovereign debt
with a US guarantee, in essence making it a part of the United States
(something the US previously did as a favor to Egypt before the Muslim
Brotherhood puppet regime was swept from power by the local army). The
resolution passed with broad bipartisan support by a count of 348 to 48.

The US' top military officer Martin Dempsey said
he would "absolutely consider" lethal aid to Ukraine

According to Deutsche
Welle, the measure urges President Obama to provide Ukraine with “lethal
defensive weapon systems” that would better enable Ukraine to defend its
territory from “the unprovoked and continuing aggression of the Russian
Federation.” “Policy like this should not be partisan,” said House Democrat
Eliot Engel, the lead sponsor of the resolution. “That is why we are rising
today as Democrats and Republicans, really as Americans, to say enough is
enough in Ukraine.”

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

March 25, 2015 (BBC News Europe) Two senior Ukrainian officials have
been arrested during a cabinet meeting as part of an anti-corruption crackdown,
hours after a powerful regional governor was sacked. The head of Ukraine's
state emergencies service, Serhiy
Bochkovsky, and his deputy Vasyl
Stoyetsky were handcuffed by police at the televised meeting. They are
suspected of involvement in high-level corruption. Earlier, Ukraine's president
sacked a billionaire governor, Ihor Kolomoisky.

Mr Kolomoisky had been running the
key industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk and had financed armed volunteers to
fight pro-Russian separatists in the east. He had been vying with President
Petro Poroshenko for control of the Ukrnafta energy company. The two arrests
shown on TV on Wednesday were connected to illegal kickbacks involving
procurement contracts, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov told the cabinet meeting.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, quoted by Reuters news agency, said that
" when the country is at war and when we are counting every penny - they
steal from people and the state. This will happen to everyone who breaks the
law and sneers at the Ukrainian state."

Sunday, March 1, 2015

1 March 2015 (BBC
News Europe)Tens
of thousands of people have marched through central Moscow to honour opposition politician Boris
Nemtsov, who was shot dead on Friday. They carried portraits of Mr Nemtsov and
banners saying "I am not afraid". He had been due to lead an
opposition march on Sunday but his killing turned the event into a mourning
rally. Mr Nemtsov's allies have accused the Kremlin of involvement, but
President Vladimir Putin condemned the murder as "vile" and vowed to
find the killers. Opposition supporters gathered at a point not far from the
Kremlin before marching past the spot on Great Moskvoretsky
Bridge where Mr Nemtsov
was killed. Several thousand people have also marched in St Petersburg.

These placards read: "Heroes
don't die" and "These bullets are for each one of us"